Grit, Perseverance, Resiliency

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award! Brothers Braden and Blake are the central characters in the Executive FUNction picture book series. One is quick to turn the smallest setbacks into the biggest life-shattering disasters while the other is...

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award! Trauma-informed strategies and trauma-sensitive activities are critical for today's youth as they are growing up in unprecedented times.  While trying to make sense of the world around them, our children and...

The Responsible ME! series centers around Noodle, a kid who's good at finding trouble, procrastinating and misdirecting blame. Despite his propensity for making poor choices, Noodle eventually learns how to take responsibility for his actions by...

Young readers learn how to be more giving, more understanding and more resilient! The Without Limits book series offers stories describing everyday examples of how to be kind to others, how to persevere when all you want to do is give up, and how to...

This special collection of FIVE books offers students strategies to change their mindset from negative to positive. As the characters in each story struggle with day-to-day challenges, they learn to flip their negative thoughts and be more positive...

This special collection of FIVE books offers students the support, encouragement, and skills they need to handle the day-to-day stress in their lives. Each entertaining story gives relatable examples and strategies to help kids deal with stress and...

The Chicoree Elementary Stories for Success book series includes 4 titles that use real life examples to teach kids to be brave, compassionate, and do the right thing. Perfect for children from kindergarten to 5th grade. The series includes: ...

Elementary and Special Ed classroom teachers find multiple ways to present and reinforce the important skills of listening and following directions with this bundled teacher kit. Read aloud the humorous story about RJ’s rough day, then follow up...

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award! Our youth are growing up in unprecedented times. They have seen global tensions, a worldwide pandemic and upheaval to the safeties embedded in their daily lives, national friction and violence, social media and the...

Bundle the storybook with the Activity Guide. This is the story of Kelsey, a young basketball star who will do whatever it takes to win on and off the court. Unfortunately, her poor sportsmanship - or sportsGIRLship, as she likes to call it - hurts her...

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award! Designed to accompany the Building Resiliency in Youth professional guide, this Activity Guide is filled with 33 trauma-informed, adult-led activities for children ages 5 through 12. The interactive, unique, and...

This teacher activity guide, designed to accompany the Middle School Misfits: The Stained Glass Tree chapter book, includes more than 20 classroom activities for students in grades 4 through 8 on important topics addressed in the book. Sections are...

Some kids are so driven to win, they try to do so at all costs - even when it has a negative impact on those around them. Learning to display good sportsmanship whether winning or losing is a tough lesson for many adults to learn, let alone kids! The...

Looking for clever and entertaining as well as effective ways to teach your students how to listen and follow instructions? To help reinforce the social skills lessons in her children’s book, The WORST Day of My Life EVER!, author Julia Cook...

An uplifting story about facing sadness and loss while rediscovering hope and self-acceptance!  Managing Sadness is a fresh, revised edition of the popular When I Couldn’t Get Over It, I Learned to Start Acting Differently storybook, by...

It's hard for adults as well as children to try new things. It's even harder to stay the course when something is more difficult than we thought it would be, or when things don't work out the way we hoped. Yet flexibility and perseverance are essential...